So... I know I said don't expect anymore chapters anytime soon but I decided to do a little Christmas special for this story. However I realized I would need to release Chapters two and three in order to have the proper context for it so that's what I'm going to do. So expect chapter three out next week and the Christmas special in two weeks. After that I'll release more when I get this arc fully written. And now on to the chapter.
New World Arc
Chapter 2: A Quirky World
Ruby had a sheepish smile as Inko continued to add to the already large sets of clothing. Izuku, who was sitting on a nearby bench, only sighed. Good thing I didn't have school work tonight. He thought to himself.
"Seriously Inko I-I don't need ALL of these." Ruby expressed.
"Oh don't be silly girl you can never have too many clothes." Inko waved off.
"B-but still I feel bad, this has to cost a lot. I know I need clothes but you don't need to spend so much on me." Ruby pointed out.
"Don't worry dear I work and my husband's job pays quite well. Money is far from an issue." Inko assured her. "Ooh… try this on Ruby I'm sure it'll look cute."
Inko held out a set of clothes towards Ruby. It consisted of a red blouse with a white skirt. Ruby gave her a disappointed look.
"Again," She whined.
"Yes again, we have to make sure everything fits fine." Inko pointed out.
"Okay fine but can this be the last one pleeeease?" Ruby pleaded. "I've had a really long day and kinda just want to lie down and relax."
"I know dear and I'm sorry. But I've always wanted a daughter and with the opportunity to do shopping like I had one, I just couldn't control myself." Inko noted.
"I understand… kind of" Ruby sighed.
Resigning herself to her fate, Ruby grabbed the clothes and went into the changing room. After a bit of finagling, she got changed into the outfit. She's stared at herself in the mirror. She's right this does look cute on me… what am I even doing. My world just meet its end and here I am playing dress up. Does that me I'm handling this well or is this just my way of coping with everything. For all I know I could be the only one here. What am I even going to do? She let out a deep sigh.
"I'll worry about this later." She muttered to herself.
"How is it Ruby? Do you like it?" Inko asked.
"Yeah it's fine." Ruby returned.
"Great! Get changed and we can check out. It's getting close to closing time as it is." Inko noted.
"Thank gods for closing time." Ruby muttered.
She got changed back into her old outfit and headed back out to Inko and Izuku, the latter of whom was carrying the bulk of the clothing.
"You got a handle on that?" Ruby asked.
"Y-yeah I've got it, three months of intensive strength training has done wonders for my physical abilities." Izuku explained.
"Alright then let's go you two." Inko directed.
The trio made there way to checkout. Thanks to it being as late as it was there were little to no lines so they got to the counter fairly quickly. When they arrived at the counter the cashier nearly had a heart attack at the sheer amount of clothing they had. After purchasing everything the Midoriyas and Ruby returned to their apartment. They put all of Ruby's new clothing in the guest room, which was now her room. Before going to bed they got Ruby's new phone, which they picked up while out shopping, set up. While there was still a lot they had to figure out, they decided it was best to get ready for bed and call it a night. They left tomorrow's problems for tomorrow's them.
Elsewhere…
Cinder sat across from the brown haired man, who went under the alias Overhaul. She slowly sipped her tea taking in all they discussed. She had found out about this world, quirks, and the country she found herself in. She had explained where she was from and how she might have gotten here. This was easily believed thanks to Overhaul's subordinate's, Shin Nemoto, quirk confession. After all that was done one more thing was brought up.
"Soooo… you want me to join you?" Cinder inquired.
"Indeed, you seem quite powerful." Overhaul complimented. "Your power would be quite useful in furthering my plans and you need an ally to help you get by in this world. A mutually beneficial deal wouldn't you say?"
"Hmm… you are right but if I am so powerful why should I be the subordinate? You know I had organizations like your wrapped around my finger. Why should I submit myself to you?" She questioned.
"Quite simple really, you know nothing of this world and it's intricacies while I do. Not only that our little scuffle from early made it clear as powerful as you are, you're my equal if not slightly more powerful." Overhaul answered. "If you think my quirk or your abilities is the height of power in this world. Then you are woefully unprepared."
Cinder chuckled at this.
"Good answer, very well. I'll accept your offer but I expect to be treated with the respect I deserve." Cinder demanded.
"Of course, I already planned to give you a position on par with my right hand man and my general manager." Overhaul returned.
"Good… now there are things I'd like to test out. In our fight I noticed something off with my power." Cinder expressed. "Something in me has changed but I don't know what?"
"We'll find out soon enough, though I suggest you wait till morning. It is late." Overhaul expressed.
"Agreed." Cinder replied.
The next morning 5:00 AM…
Izuku woke up bright and early as per the usual. Having done this for the past three months, he'd gotten used to being an early riser. After getting changed he headed out to the kitchen/living room area. To his surprise he found Ruby sitting on the sofa watching the news. She had a tired melancholic look on her face.
"G-good morning." He greeted.
"Mornin'" Ruby returned.
"Couldn't sleep I take it?" He inquired as he sat next to her.
"Yeah, a lot on my mind with… you know everything that's happened." she expressed.
"You want to talk about it?" He asked.
She shrugged.
"Not much to really talk about." She stated. "It's just… As far as I know I'm the only one here and even if that isn't the case I don't even know where I'd begin to start searching. I feel like I should be doing something but I don't know what?"
Ruby's expression turned more somber. Izuku noticed this and began to think of anyway to help her. As he did this his mother walked into the room.
"I figured you two would be up around the same time." She stated.
The both turned to the adult in the room.
"I'll fix us up some breakfast it shouldn't take to long." She added.
"Alright," They both replied.
After a few brief more seconds, an idea came to mind. He knew it probably wouldn't help her but maybe it would cheer her up.
"Hey Ruby, mind if I show you something?" Izuku suddenly asked.
"Oh… uhm… I guess, what is it?" She questioned.
"It's a video online, one of my favorites. I'd always watch it whenever I was feeling down. Especially when I was younger." Izuku explained. "Maybe it'll at least cheer you up for a bit."
"Hmm… sure, I guess, why not?" Ruby expressed.
"Alright, we'll use the laptop in my room." he stated.
Izuku lead Ruby to his room, much to his embarrassment given all his All Might memorabilia. As he lead her in it finally crossed his mind what exactly he was doing. Ohmygod Ohmygod Ohmygod Ohmygod Ohmygod I lead a girl into my room! His face turned bright red but he continued forward towards the laptop on his desk. While he powered it up Ruby took note of Izuku's room, specifically all the memorabilia for All Might.
"Wow you have a lot of stuff of that All Might guy." She noted.
"Oh uuuuuhhhh… yeah I'm kind of a fanboy when it comes to heroes, especially All Might." Izuku admitted sheepishly.
"I see… I take it heroes are a big thing in your world?" She asked.
"Y-you could say that." Izuku answered.
"By the way what are 'heroes' exactly you keep talking about them? I mean I know a hero is some who puts his life on the line for the good of others but it seems like an actual job on this world." Ruby observed.
"Oh… well your correct about it being a job. You see in our world we have powers called quirks. They just appeared one day some 200 years ago and now 80% of the population has a quirk of some kind. Our world become a real life comic book seemingly overnight. Heroes are individuals allowed to use their quirks to protect the public. There kind of like an upgraded version of the police though we still have those." Izuku explained. "You can actually go to school to become a hero. That's what I'm training for."
"Oh I see, that's kind of cool." Ruby stated.
"I know right… ah here we are." Izuku stated as he pulled up the video.
"What's this?" Ruby asked.
"It's All Might's debut." Izuku explained, then hit play.
The video showed a disaster scene with many injured people and fire swarming about. The camera was unsteady showing it was on the spot reporting
"Who is he? The guys already saved a hundred people at least and it hasn't even been ten minutes!" The man on the video declared. "This is… this is crazy I can't believe it!"
The camera continued to shift around eventually focusing on the looming figure of a man revealing itself to be All Might.
"Ahahaha…" He bellowed.
"Look he's got more!" The first man pointed out.
All Might continued to laugh as though nothing was wrong as though everything would be fine.
"Fear not citizens, help has arrived!" All Might declared. "Because I am here!"
The video caused something to stir in Ruby. It was something she had not felt in awhile, true admiration. The sheer charisma and aura All Might exuded was nothing short of spectacular. As though a blast of light had burst forth and banished the darkness that surrounded her. Her eyes light up for the first time since arriving in this new world. Izuku noticed this and smiled. Little did he now this simple act would change everything.
"That's it." Ruby whispered with a smile.
"Huh?" Izuku questioned.
"That's it!" Ruby exclaimed with a big bright smile. "I'll become a hero. It's not any different from my original goal back on my home world. Not only that it'll give me the ability to try and find any of my friends if they made it here. And who knows, maybe I can even find out what happened to my old world."
Izuku smile grew even wider.
"That's a great idea. Hey, I bet we can go to UA together." Izuku suggested.
Ruby nodded fervently.
"Your right, but how would that work I'm not exactly from her you know." Ruby pointed out.
"We can talk to All Might he's the number one hero so I'm sure he can help us." Izuku brought up. "But we're gonna have to figure a lot of stuff out with your situation, are you ready for that?"
"Yep!" Ruby clipped.
"Get ready then. I'll give him a call." Izuku stated.
While Ruby went to get changed, Izuku made the call to All Might.
"Good morning Young Midoriya, good to hear from you." All Might greeted. "I take it this has something to do with Young Rose."
"Yep she says she's ready to start sorting this out." Izuku stated. "Also she says she's interested in becoming a hero and going to UA. Is there anyway we can work this out?"
"Ahahaha… of course I'm sure I can sort something out." All Might returned. "Bring her down to the beach and we can start getting this taken care of."
"Will do, cya then." Izuku expressed.
"See you then Young Midoriya." All Might returned.
The two hung up. After getting changed and eating breakfast, Izuku and Ruby made there way to Dagoba Beach.
Dagoba Beach, 6:00 AM…
Izuku made their way onto the junk filled beach. There, they were greeted with the buff form of All Might flashing his trademark smile.
"Young Midoriya, Young Rose, good to see you two!" All Might called.
"All Might!" Izuku returned.
"Gooood morning!" Ruby cheered.
"Ahahaha… well it's good to see Young Rose in good spirit for a change." All Might expressed. "Now then let's get down to business. Let's go over what we know regarding Young Rose's situation. We should at least try and figure what exactly might have caused this to occur. Unfortunately that may require go through some… unpleasant memories if that is alright Young Rose."
"It's fine, I've gotta keep moving forward no matter what." Ruby declared. "Now let's see… the only thing that stands out to me was Cinder, the woman who… murdered my friend, held a strange object. I didn't get a good look at it before everything… went white, but it seemed to be some sort of crown. If I had to guess that'd be what caused it."
"Hmm… that's not much to go off of. Would there have been anyone in your world that know about this object?" All Might asked. "It's a long shot but if you arrived here there might be more. Perhaps they could be the key to this puzzle."
"Hmm… … … I don't know… Maybe Professor Ozpin, or someone close to him like Professor Goodwitch, General Ironwood, or my Uncle Qrow." Ruby suggested.
"Alright that's a start give me there full names so we can start a search for them." All Might stated as he pulled out a phone to type the names in.
"Actually could you give me your number. I'll just text them to you. Their names are spelled a little weird so that way you'll have it right for the search." Ruby stated.
This puzzled All Might. While he was not surprised the girl had a phone he did question her ability to write in Japanese.
"Young Rose, do you even know Japanese?" All Might asked.
"Mhm… we are speaking it right now aren't we?" Ruby pointed out.
All Mights eyes widened.
"Your right we are! How did I not notice such a thing?!" All Might exclaimed.
"To be fair neither Ruby nor I noticed it till she read my name on the front of my door." Izuku pointed out. "Which reminds me. After you text him the names there's somethings I'd like to test out if that's okay?"
"Sure, that's fine." Ruby stated.
All Might gave Ruby his number and she texted him the names of all the people to look for.
"Alright, now Young Midoriya what you wish to test?" All Might questioned.
"Simple, I want to see if anything else has changed with Ruby." Izuku stated.
"What do you mean?" Ruby questioned.
"I mean we know Ruby isn't a native Japanese speaker. Heck she shouldn't be speaking any language from Earth. Yet her she is, reading; speaking; and writing Japanese as good as any native speaker." Izuku pointed out. "Whatever that object did to bring her here, it someone how changed her to be able to do this, as though she was changed to fit the world. If that's the cause then perhaps something else has changed."
"A perceptive deduction Young Midoriya, good job!" All Might exclaimed.
"Oh… I-it was nothing too special." Izuku waved off with a blush.
"Don't say that I think it's impressive you managed to figure all that out." Ruby complimented, causing Izuku to blush even more. "Now that you mention it my body does feel… different."
"What do you mean?" All Might asked.
"I don't know how to explain it. My appearance hasn't changed at all but… it feels like something in me has changed."
"Hmm… perhaps it's a quirk." All Might suggested. "If your body was changed to fit this world, having a quirk wouldn't be too far fetched. Did you have special powers in your world."
Ruby nodded.
"On Remnant we had something called aura, it's the manifestation of our souls. Anything with a soul had aura. It had to be unlocked, usually by someone doing it for you, but anyone could have it. We can bring up our aura to defend ourselves and heal wounds." Ruby explained. "Along with this came a special ability called a semblance that could be unlocked. Most semblances are unique to each individual, though there were a few that are inherited."
"I see… if that's the cause then your semblance probably became your quirk given the similarities between them." Izuku pointed out.
"Only one way to find out." Ruby stated with a smile.
Shifting her footing, Ruby burst forth leaving rose petals in her wake. She was a blur of red in her movements moving at incredible speed. However it didn't last long and she come to a stop a bit away from All Might and Izuku. She turned to the two with a smile before bursting back to them.
"Well my semblance worked. If I don't have aura then we know it's that quirk thingy." Ruby stated.
"And how do we test that? Frankly I don't want you to hurt yourself just to see if you can get hurt or not." All Might expressed.
"Don't worry I can tell it's not working." Ruby stated. "Aura has to be activated consciously so I can tell it's not working cause I don't feel it surrounding me."
"Then that means it's pretty safe to say that you now have a quirk and it's what once was your semblance." All Might pointed out. "Which brings us to the next matter at hand, UA. Do you think you'll be ready? I can get things squared away on the legal end, but the entrance exam is in seven months."
"I don't know. I'll have to get used to fighting without a weapon. Hand to hand combat isn't really my specialty." Ruby admitted sheepishly.
"If that's the case some training should do the trick. Aaaaaand… as luck would have it were at the perfect place to do it." All Might stated gesturing to the beach.
"You'd let me train here? Won't it interfere with Izuku's training?" Ruby asked.
"Worry not young lady, Young Midoriya is mainly doing strength training so you shouldn't interfere too much if at all." All Might assured her. "Though I should get you in contact with a dojo for the actual combat training. This beach should main be utilized practicing your quirk."
"Alright then let's get down to it!" Ruby cheered, pumping her fist into the air.
"Ahahaha… I like your spirit girl. But since you'll be training with us…" All Might began before going up into a puff of smoke. "I should probably explain this."
Ruby's mouth was agape and her eyes seemed to bulge out of her head. The giant of a man that was All Might had just shrunken down to a near skeleton. She couldn't even utter a word, only gasp at the sight of the sight of the emasculated hero.
"Well… at least she didn't scream like you did." All Might noted.
"That's a plus, I think." Izuku expressed nervously.
And Chapter two is done. Feel free to leave a review on what you think so far. Till next time...
